Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.

[happytimefunbox]

FML

[gravitylover]

Gravitylover - what do you sell?

Bicycle and outdoor p&a to stores. Some bike shops are open, the rest of my dealer base isn't. Most of them that aren't open won't need what I have to offer for months, maybe not at all this year depending on how it goes when they are allowed to reopen because they were well enough stocked to get the year started but it didn't start. The bike shops that are open are operating at reduced levels and have mostly retrenched to a handful of critical suppliers other than in NYC where they're going gangbusters with curbside service. One of my vendors falls into that critical zone but at 4% of net profit with general margins for the distributor in the 20% range sales have to be huge for it to add up and without being able to walk in and take orders I'm not the one getting them, they're defaulting to their one or two most important. The reps for the 3 or 4 biggest companies that are getting the orders are lovin' it, sitting home on their asses while orders roll in.

[Rideski]

Woke up with a semi migraine.
Click into a webex meeting.
Promptly spill half a mug of hot coffee all over desk, floor, sweats, ski boots.
Who the fuck left ski boots out here?
Fuck.

[Kinnikinnick]

Bicycle and outdoor p&a to stores. Some bike shops are open, the rest of my dealer base isn't. Most of them that aren't open won't need what I have to offer for months, maybe not at all this year depending on how it goes when they are allowed to reopen because they were well enough stocked to get the year started but it didn't start. The bike shops that are open are operating at reduced levels and have mostly retrenched to a handful of critical suppliers other than in NYC where they're going gangbusters with curbside service. One of my vendors falls into that critical zone but at 4% of net profit with general margins for the distributor in the 20% range sales have to be huge for it to add up and without being able to walk in and take orders I'm not the one getting them, they're defaulting to their one or two most important. The reps for the 3 or 4 biggest companies that are getting the orders are lovin' it, sitting home on their asses while orders roll in.

Ask your sales leader to let you offer special terms or something to call them and offer something special. Net 60 or 90 instead of net 30?


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[concretejungle]

My partner's kids' school project is making a pair of maraca's for music class. Get fucked, she's nine and I'm pretty sure there are a thousand things she could be doing to fulfill her music learning.

[glademaster]

That's still better than being trapped at home with a nine year old in possession of a recorder.

Satan's three piece band features a bagpipe, an accordion and a recorder.

[snowaddict91]

That's still better than being trapped at home with a nine year old in possession of a recorder.

Satan's three piece band features a bagpipe, an accordion and a recorder.

Haha. I remember setting my recorder on fire when I was done with it in middle school. If my parents knew, they didn't stop me.

The funny part was 10 years later, when I had to play the record in the BS intro to music class I took in college for an easy A. Drinking beer during recorder practice was a memory I won't forget. My roommates fucking hated me.

[Self Jupiter]

I had some pretty sick skills with the recorder back in my day

[glademaster]

I had some pretty sick recorder skills back in the day

Play Thick as a Brick!!!

[shroom]

recorder skills were right of passage in the 90’s

[XXX-er]

Bicycle and outdoor p&a to stores. Some bike shops are open, the rest of my dealer base isn't. Most of them that aren't open won't need what I have to offer for months, maybe not at all this year depending on how it goes when they are allowed to reopen because they were well enough stocked to get the year started but it didn't start. The bike shops that are open are operating at reduced levels and have mostly retrenched to a handful of critical suppliers other than in NYC where they're going gangbusters with curbside service. One of my vendors falls into that critical zone but at 4% of net profit with general margins for the distributor in the 20% range sales have to be huge for it to add up and without being able to walk in and take orders I'm not the one getting them, they're defaulting to their one or two most important. The reps for the 3 or 4 biggest companies that are getting the orders are lovin' it, sitting home on their asses while orders roll in.

Up here the bikes stores are deemed an essential service, the amount of customers in the store are limited, 6 ft of distancing, according to my buddy at a higher end bike store " super busy, selling bikes like crazy, also lots of repairs " people just call and shop by phone n pick it up, less dealing with lookey loos,

[George441]

Will we die?

[riser4]

Will we die?

Yes. Definitely.

[seano732]

Yes. Definitely.

[k2skier112]

Kids across the street were playing a rousing game of tag, but instead of being "it" they were yelling, "you got corona"!

[GoldMember]

Up here the bikes stores are deemed an essential service, the amount of customers in the store are limited, 6 ft of distancing, according to my buddy at a higher end bike store " super busy, selling bikes like crazy, also lots of repairs " people just call and shop by phone n pick it up, less dealing with lookey loos,

Do you guys call it 6 feet of distancing? Or is it 2 meters?

[ill-advised strategy]

Traffic is back to normal here.
More businesses seem to be operating, regardless of legality.
It seems like kinda everyone just decided to ignore the order all at once today.

[gravitylover]

Up here the bikes stores are deemed an essential service, the amount of customers in the store are limited, 6 ft of distancing, according to my buddy at a higher end bike store " super busy, selling bikes like crazy, also lots of repairs " people just call and shop by phone n pick it up, less dealing with lookey loos,

Yeah but when they don't want you in the store it gets tough, like I said they just default to their top 2 or 3 suppliers and focus on what they have to do. The stores that are open are killin' it, to the point that they don't want to take extra time to go outside their routine unless something they need is sold out and they need an alternate.

Ask your sales leader to let you offer special terms or something to call them and offer something special. Net 60 or 90 instead of net 30?

With things so over the top busy in so many places and with supply chains broken nothing is on sale, there are no special terms to be had because you don't "give it away" when the demand is sky high and the supply is in the toilet.

I expect the situation would be different if I didn't live in the hot zone. 93% of the cases in the state are within 60 miles of my house, the county in CT that's 10 miles from my house is the hardest hit in that state too and 45 minutes away NJ is getting slammed. Nobody in the other areas wants us dirty, diseased tri-state people even near their town/county right now and it's transferring through to their business decisions. They feel that they're under stay at home orders because of this area and the resentment is palpable.

[skaredshtles]

Traffic is back to normal here.
More businesses seem to be operating, regardless of legality.
It seems like kinda everyone just decided to ignore the order all at once today.

Damn, man... good luck.

[XXX-er]

Do you guys call it 6 feet of distancing? Or is it 2 meters?

yes

[BCMtnHound]

Kids across the street were playing a rousing game of tag, but instead of being "it" they were yelling, "you got corona"!

This was going on in our elementary school just before the closure. Except they were tagging each other with spit. That game did not last long, but damn.

[XXX-er]

Yeah but when they don't want you in the store it gets tough, like I said they just default to their top 2 or 3 suppliers and focus on what they have to do. The stores that are open are killin' it, to the point that they don't want to take extra time to go outside their routine unless something they need is sold out and they need an alternate.
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they flat out advertised 3 people only in the store, don't bring your family, no browsing so don't come in unless you are gona buy something, customers are calling wanting this bike or whatever haven't got that but got this and cha-ching high end stuff flying out of the store ... some big days

[westoxified]

the never-maskers refuse to obey the shopping aisle directional arrows at Smith's. saw a masked firefighter high-five some never-masked bro of his who he hadn't seen in days. apparently the meat aisle encourages such behavior.

took a pay cut and hour reduction today... counting it as a raise.

[zion zig zag]

saw a masked firefighter high-five some never-masked bro of his who he hadn't seen in days.

Damn. Mind telling me what day and what Smith's this was? We're trying to be the example and I'd like to address it.

[Core Shot]

Damn. Mind telling me what day and what Smith's this was? We're trying to be the example and I'd like to address it.

Go Karen
Go Karen
Drop a dime. On his “crime”